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I’ve had some ear trouble as of late. In January I had an ear infection which ended up with me learning that I’m allergic to amoxicillin, which probably means that I’m allergic to all -cillins. (But hopefully not Cillian Murphy, I’d be happy to find out if anyone would like to arrange a meeting.) Since then I’ve noticed any little thing wrong with either of my ears, including some pain that’s been growing for a while and got bad enough I almost called in sick on Friday morning. I am no longer enrolled at Sac State and I’m rather underemployed, I don’t have much access to health care. So when I got off of work on Friday I went on a hunt for a clinic that would help me figure out what was wrong with my right ear.

After about an hour of walking into multiple clinics and half-begging for help, I found a place that set an appointment for Monday (today for you, tomorrow for me). Fortunately, I still have some of the mondo-ibuprofen that they gave me in January so I didn’t even have to stock up on the over the counter bottles and down them in double doses.

While on my hunt, I tweeted about my frustrations with our health care system. A friend asked if I was sick, and I replied that I thought I had another ear infection. Apparently ear infection is a keyword for a particular spammer, because @eardoc replied to me, asking if I knew what the best remedy for an ear infection was. I get bitchy snarky when I’m in pain, so I replied to them.

Guess who isn’t going to have to pay $50 for a single office visit to the clinic! That’s right, not only did I try it, it worked!

I hate to have to let the folks at EarDoc know, but I hope that you all will remember this when you have some ear issues, and maybe even go for the $15 solution from Babeland that is intended for other activities as well!